hardened

hard·en  (härdn)

v. hard·ened, hard·en·ing, hard·ens

v.tr.

1. To make hard or harder.

2. To enable to withstand physical or mental hardship.

3. To make unfeeling, unsympathetic, or callous: "To love love and not its meaning hardens the heart in monstrous ways" (Archibald MacLeish).

4. To make sharp, as in outline.

5. To protect (nuclear weapons) by surrounding with earth or concrete.

v.intr.

1. To become hard or harder.

2. To rise and become stable. Used of prices.

3. To become inured.

Synonyms: harden, acclimate, acclimatize, season, toughen
These verbs mean to make resistant to hardship, especially through continued exposure: was hardened to frontier life; is acclimated to the tropical heat; was acclimatized by long hours to overwork; became seasoned to life in prison; toughened by experience.

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hardened [ˈhɑːd^ənd]

adj

1. rigidly set, as in a mode of behaviour

2. toughened, as by custom; seasoned

3. (Military) (of a nuclear missile site) constructed to withstand a nuclear attack

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	hardened - used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge" case-hardened, hard-boiled hard - dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";
	2.	hardened - made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass" tempered, toughened, treated
	3.	hardened - protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos" soft - not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "soft targets"
	4.	hardened - made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett enured, inured toughened, tough - physically toughened; "the tough bottoms of his feet"
	5.	hardened - converted to solid form (as concrete) set hard - resisting weight or pressure

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hardened

adjective

1. habitual, set, fixed, chronic, shameless, inveterate, incorrigible, reprobate, irredeemable, badass (slang, chiefly U.S.) hardened criminals
habitual rare, occasional, irregular, infrequent, unaccustomed

2. seasoned, experienced, accustomed, toughened, inured, habituated hardened politicians
seasoned green, naive

Translations

hardened [ˈhɑːdnd] ADJ

1. [drinker] → empedernido; [criminal] → reincidente
to be hardened to sth → estar acostumbrado a algo
we are becoming hardened to violence → nos hemos ido acostumbrando a la violencia

2. (Tech) [steel] → templado

hardened [ˈhɑː^rd^ənd] adj [criminal] → endurci(e)
to be hardened to sth → s'être endurci(e) à qch, être devenu(e) insensible à qch
to become hardened to sth → devenir insensible à qch

hardened

adj steel → gehärtet; troops → zäh, abgehärtet; sinner → verstockt; attitude → verhärtet; arteries → verkalkt; hardened criminal → Gewohnheitsverbrecher(in) m(f); to be hardened to the cold/the climate → gegen die Kälte/das Klima abgehärtet sein; to be hardened to somebody’s charms → unempfänglich für jds Charme sein; to be hardened to death → an den Tod gewöhnt sein; you become hardened to it after a while → daran gewöhnt man sich mit der Zeit

hardened [ˈhɑːdnd] adj (criminal) → incallito/a
to be hardened to sth → essere (diventato/a) insensibile a qc

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hardened [ˈhɑːdnd] adj (criminal) → incallito/a
to be hardened to sth → essere (diventato/a) insensibile a qc